On Secure NOMA-based Terrestrial and Aerial IoT Systems

Lei, Hongjiang; Zhu, Chen; Park, Kihong; Lei, Weijia; Ansari, Imran Shafique; Tsiftsis, Theodoros A.

On Secure NOMA-based Terrestrial and Aerial IoT Systems

Type

Article

Authors

Lei, Hongjiang
Zhu, Chen
Park, Kihong

Lei, Weijia
Ansari, Imran Shafique
Tsiftsis, Theodoros A.

KAUST Department

Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division

Online Publication Date

2021

Print Publication Date

2022-04-01

Date

2021-08-26

Abstract

In this paper, we study the secure communication performance of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication systems with aerial eavesdroppers. Firstly, the ground-to-ground NOMA communications systems are considered wherein the near user is uniformly distributed in an inner disc and the far user is uniformly distributed in an outer ring within cell coverage of a base station at the center. A single eavesdropper is uniformly distributed outside the protected zone or multiple eavesdroppers are randomly dispersed and modeled as a three-dimensional (3D) homogeneous Poisson point process. Subsequently, the secrecy performance of the ground-to-air NOMA communications systems are investigated wherein the near user is uniformly distributed in an internal 3D spherical cap and the far user is uniformly distributed in an external 3D spherical cap. To enhance secrecy performance, a protected zone is introduced around the ground base station. Novel exact expressions for the secrecy outage probability (SOP) for both scenarios are derived. Finally, Monte Carlo simulation results are presented to validate the correctness of the derived analytical expressions and demonstrate the effects of system parameters on SOP of the considered system.

Citation

Lei, H., Zhu, C., Park, K.-H., Lei, W., Ansari, I. S., & Tsiftsis, T. A. (2021). On Secure NOMA-based Terrestrial and Aerial IoT Systems. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 1–1. doi:10.1109/jiot.2021.3108002

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61971080, Natural Science Foundation Project of Chongqing under Grant cstc2019jcyj-msxmX0032, and the Open Fund of the Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Information Communication Network and Security under Grant ICNS201807.